Childhood friends in a small Welsh village investigate the unexplained death of a man found at the bottom of a cliff. I started re-reading the novel when I heard this was coming out, because I wanted an escape from the world’s current problems, though it didn’t quite pan out like that. Agatha Christie’s 1934 whodunnit… Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (TV mini series) Read More
Pursuit Of A Jigsaw (short film) Short Film 4 stars
A terrifying social satire that delves into the current state of America, the human psyche and relationships. Ahh, marriage. The joyous melding of two lives. It sounds lovely, but judging by Sam Mizrahi-Powell’s short-but-effective horror film Pursuit Of The Jigsaw would look extremely disturbing, if we saw the physical reality. Mizrahi-Powell calls his award winning… Pursuit Of A Jigsaw (short film) Read More
Greenland 4 stars
As a comet heads to Earth, a family tries to make their way to safety in Greenland. Despite the early Greenland trailers heralding something out of the ’90s (and how many of us expected Gerard Butler to stab the comet in the head before telling it to “go back to Alpha fucking Centauri”?) the film… Greenland Read More
TV review: The Crown, season 4, plus episode recaps
Read my series review below, or full episode recaps here: episode 1 (Gold Stick), episode 2 (The Balmoral Test), episode 3 (Fairytale), episode 4 (Favourites), episode 5 (Fagan), episode 6 (Terra Nullius), episode 7 (The Hereditary Principle), episode 8 (48:1), episode 9 (Avalanche), and episode 10 (War). Tracing a decade of royal, political and worldwide events – from the assassination of Earl Mountbatten,… TV review: The Crown, season 4, plus episode recaps Read More
Gerard Butler is BACK as Banning: fourth installment announced
Is 2020 finally cutting us some slack? They say good things come in threes, and what a week this has been. First Biden / Harris win the US election. Then a COVID-19 vaccine is announced. And now… there’s a new Has Fallen film. Okay so not always in threes, as this is Gerard Butler’s fourth… Gerard Butler is BACK as Banning: fourth installment announced Read More
The Songbird trailer that’s getting people tweeting
What movies does one watch during a pandemic? Brilliant classics? Dumb comedies? Brilliant comedies? Films about, um, pandemics? There has been a lot of chatter this week on social media about upcoming thriller Songbird, a romantic thriller made during the pandemic and envisaging a world in a few years’ time where the COVID situation has… The Songbird trailer that’s getting people tweeting Read More
Greenland joins Wonder Woman 1984 with a pushed-back release date
Both Wonder Woman 1984, and Greenland 1998 (just kidding) have been put back to later this year. Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman sequel is now scheduled to open in the UK on Boxing Day and in the US on Christmas Day, and Greenland has an an yet-unannounced fourth-quarter release planned. Gerard Butler’s comet survival movie has… Greenland joins Wonder Woman 1984 with a pushed-back release date Read More
Bill & Ted Face The Music: featurettes and photos
*** My review and article are now live *** It’s nearly three decades since their excellent adventure and bogus journey and they still haven’t written that song to save the universe. And it’s not like we don’t need it. Bill & Ted Face The Music is out in UK cinemas on 16 September – until… Bill & Ted Face The Music: featurettes and photos Read More
Bill & Ted to face the music a week earlier than planned
It’s already out in the US on digital – and the cinema opening date for the UK `and Ireland has now been brought forward. Yes we can now watch the loveable slackers in cinemas from 16 September, after which we can put aside all thoughts of Beardless Keanu and life should return to some sort… Bill & Ted to face the music a week earlier than planned Read More
Ammonite to close BFI London Film Festival
The UK Premiere of Ammonite will screen to audiences at BFI Southbank and in selected cinemas across the UK Francis Lee’s drama, a lesbian love story about 19th century English palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman she is asked to take under her wing, has been selected as the closing film for his year’s… Ammonite to close BFI London Film Festival Read More
Steve McQueen’s Mangrove to open 64th BFI London Film Festival this October
The European Premiere of Mangrove, one of five films from the Small Axe Anthology, will play for free to audiences at BFI Southbank and in selected cinemas across the UK. The film, directed by the multi-award-winning visual artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen and co-written by McQueen and Alastair Siddons, stars Letitia Wright, Shaun Parkes and Malachi Kirby. Marking 50… Steve McQueen’s Mangrove to open 64th BFI London Film Festival this October Read More
The Secret Garden: new UK & Ireland release date
Sky Original The Secret Garden is now coming to Sky and cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 23 October, having been bumped several times over the spring and summer due to the cinema shutdown. It will also be available from the same date on NOW TV with the Sky Cinema Pass. The Secret Garden tells… The Secret Garden: new UK & Ireland release date Read More
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